potnia 0.3.2

Potnia is an open-source Python library designed to convert Romanized transliterations of ancient texts into Unicode representations of ther respective native scripts..

Potnia is an open-source Python library designed to convert Romanized transliterations of ancient texts into Unicode representations of ther respective native scripts.

Currently, the scripts supported by Potnia are:

• Linear A

• Linear B

• Hittite cuneiform

• Arabic

Functionality for Luwian hieroglyphs, Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform and Etruscan is in development.

Contributions are welcome! Please see the CONTRIBUTING.rst file for more information.

Installation

To install Potnia, run the following command:

pip install potnia

To install the latest version from the repository, you can use this command:

pip install git+https://github.com/AncientNLP/potnia.git

Usage

To convert transliterated Linear B to Linear B Unicode, use the following code:

>>> from potnia import linear_b
>>> linear_b("a-ri-to-jo")
'𐀀𐀪𐀵𐀍'

If you wish to regularize the text to remove additional annotations present in the LiBER and DĀMOS transliteration, use the following code:

>>> linear_b("e-ke-qe ]-o-na-to , ke-ke-me-na⌞ ⌟ko-to-na GRA qs ] vac.", regularize=True)
'𐀁𐀐𐀤 %𐀃𐀙𐀵 𐀐𐀐𐀕𐀙 𐀒𐀵𐀙 𐂎 %'

Note that uncertain/missing signs or sections of text are presently being replaced with a wildcard ‘%’ character.

To tokenize transliterated Linear B texts without converting it to Unicode, use the following code:

>>> linear_b.tokenize_transliteration("]wa VIR 1 MUL 2 'ko-wa 1' ko-wo 1")
[']', 'wa', ' ', 'VIR', ' ', '1', ' ', 'MUL', ' ', '2', ' ', "'", 'ko', 'wa', ' ', '1', "'", ' ', 'ko', 'wo', ' ', '1']

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Potnia also provides a command line interface (CLI).

To convert transliterated Linear B to Unicode, use the following command:

potnia linear-b "a-ri-to-jo"

To regularize the text, use the following command:

potnia linear-b "e-ke-qe ]-o-na-to , ke-ke-me-na⌞ ⌟ko-to-na GRA qs ] vac." --regularize

To see the full set of commands available in the CLI, use the following command:

potnia --help

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Potnia also provides a graphical user interface (GUI). To start it, run:

potnia gui

This will show a link in the terminal that you can click on to open the GUI in your browser.

Credits

Potnia is developed by:

• Emily Tour (University of Melbourne)

• Kabir Manandhar Shrestha (Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, University of Melbourne)

• Dr Robert Turnbull (Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, University of Melbourne)